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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2015
Barry-wehmiller Container Systems, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Dorian F. Steeber, Fort Gibson, OK (US);
Barry-Wehmiller Container Systems, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
A buffer assembly is configured to buffer a stream of articles moving along a conveyor. The buffer assembly is interposed in said conveyor. The buffer assembly has a horizontal in-feed accumulator that is configured to receive the stream of articles from said conveyor, and a horizontal mass storage accumulator connected to an output of the horizontal in-feed accumulator for receiving said stream of articles therefrom. Each of the horizontal in-feed accumulator and the horizontal mass storage accumulator are configured to buffer said stream of articles. The buffer assembly also has a horizontal out-feed accumulator connected to the output of the horizontal mass storage accumulator that is configured to buffer the stream of articles. The in-feed buffering of the articles prevents product compression and the buffering of the out-feed articles prevents the formation of gaps between product articles.